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The education secretary and his opposite number went head-to-head on the same stage this week &horbar; locking horns over what kind of exams system English education should embrace. Pete Henshaw looks at the arguments.

Nine in 10 deaf-blind children have no chance of getting the professional support they need because they have not been identified by local authorities. And even when a child is identified as being deaf-blind and given an assessment, seven out of 10 still

A Â£50 million government scheme intended to help the poorest and most disadvantaged young people go to university is too complicated and unlikely to be having the intended impact, a study has warned. It comes as one university vice-chancellor this week b

Teachers could be put under extra pressure to fill gaps left by cuts to the careers service in Wales, unions have warned. Unison says it is writing to schools to warn them of the possible impact of cuts to the advisory service Careers Wales.

Concerns have been raised about the timescale and impact of reforms to A level examinations. It comes as the exams watchdog confirmed plans to ban A level and AS level students from sitting exams in January &horbar; the first of a raft of A level reforms

An in-depth investigation by MPs into the future of apprenticeships has concluded that the Department for Education and schools must do more to promote apprenticeships as being on a par with university pathways.

Headteachers are furious after Ofqual quoted from an online teachers' forum in its GCSE English grading report &horbar; despite having evidence from an Â£150,000 investigation which included 100 face-to-face interviews with schools. Schools are now being

Qualification textbooks are too focused on exam preparation at the expense of subject content, Ofqual has said. The exams watchdog has publishing its initial findings after investigating potential conflicts of interests between awarding bodies and the tex

Sir Winston Churchill is regarded as one of the greatest orators of the 20th century. And now a new initiative means that schools, universities and libraries will be able to view his entire archive of speech drafts, letters and papers online for the first